The Second Best Colony of Second Best Puppet 18 is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Noah with an even hand, and remarkable for its daily referendums, infamous sell-swords, and devotion to social welfare. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 6.756 billion Second Best Puppet 18ians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Law & Order, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 93.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Second Best Puppet 18ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,265 trillion cards a year, is broadly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Uranium Mining, Woodchip Exports, Information Technology, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 187,319 cards, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.2 times as much as the poorest.

Cricket farmers use magnifying glasses to fit every member of their herd with tiny tracking tags, a milk bath costs more than bathing in money, the police have reaffirmed their tough stance on drugs, and royalist is the most offensive slur in the Second Best Puppet 18ian language. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Second Best Puppet 18's national animal is the legendary, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Second Best Puppet 18 is ranked 7,640^th in the world and 26^th in Two for Lowest Crime Rates, with 106.52 law-abiding acts per hour.